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The Future of Finance is Now

What Does the Future Look Like for Finance?

Extraordinarily rare is the person who can truly predict what the future holds in store, but sometimes a look at the present is all it takes to recognize arising opportunities. The financial industry is at a critical juncture and must come to grips with radical change. Business models are changing practically by the week, and all actors without exception currently find themselves at a crossroads. They are on the lookout for ideas on how to continue generating growth.

Many of the new ways of thinking are rooted in new technologies, infrastructures and data. The challenge is to utilize their full potential to tap new customer segments. We at SIX are working closely with our clients to futuristically transform the financial markets of today.

2024/25 Future of Finance Study


The fourth annual study in the Future of Finance series by SIX reveals that – in the context of changing market conditions – confidence has returned strongly to financial institutions across the globe.

For Future of Finance 2025/26, Censuswide on behalf of SIX surveyed senior executives across 291 international financial institutions spanning asset management, wealth management, asset servicing, and investment banking in Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, the UK, and the US.

The survey included questions across four key topics: growth, trading, regulations, and data.

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Our Latest Research and Reports

What will the financial world look like in 5, 10 or 15 years? Which technologies will become dominant? What role will data and artificial intelligence play? We’re always thinking about the future, and we share our knowledge in various publications like white papers or reports in all the areas related to financial services. Our white papers include analyses of developments in the finance industry, new methods or specific problems that our clients are facing. We report the facts and then assess them on the basis of conversations with experts from the world of academia and the financial industry. Our aim is to initiate discussions and provide insights.

Future of Wealth Management

How is the Swiss asset management industry positioning itself and how should it adapt to the increasingly data- and technology-driven world in order to ensure its future competitiveness? Explore more about one of the most important business areas in the Swiss financial industry.

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Market Data in the Age of AI

For this market data study, Coalition Greenwatch, in collaboration with SIX, interviewed 50 buy-side firms globally to uncover the latest trends and innovations in market data consumption, distribution and technology adoption.

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The Impact of Technology on New Business Models in Banking

Digitalization has fundamentally changed the way financial services work today. Read about the most important trends in open banking, embedded finance and banking-as-a-service.

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The Future of the Swiss Invoice Industry

Together with the University of Applied Science of Lucerne, SIX provides an overview of the Swiss invoicing industry. Find out more about their importance to the Swiss payment traffic and the economy, both in terms of transaction volume and their role in the Swiss payments culture.

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The Perspective of Buyers of Voluntary Carbon Credits (VCCs)

Gain insights into the current state of the carbon credit market with a particular focus on the perspective of buyers of Voluntary Carbon Credits (VCCs). What are the key factors influencing the decision-making process for the purchase of VCCs, what are the challenges faced by market participants?

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Further Glimpses into the Future

DeFi, DApps, and the Like: How the Financial System Is Becoming Decentralized

Now that the word “blockchain” appears to have crept into everyday parlance, neologisms like “DeFi” and “DApps” are going around these days. Find out in this blog post what they mean and how they’re changing the world of finance.

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Data Facilitates Markets

The importance of data goes beyond just being a source of income: Data links different businesses and even industries together. Read how data creates transparency, makes processes more efficient, and enables growth.

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What Is This Metaverse Thing Anyways? And What Does It Mean for Banks?

At least since Facebook changed its name, the term has been on everyone’s lips: the metaverse. What’s it all about? What do NFTs have to do with it? And what does it all mean for banks?

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Exchange-Traded Art: Can We All (Co-)Own a Picasso Now?

For a minimum of 100 euro you’re in luck: the Liechtenstein-based ARTEX enables you to co-own works of art and to trade shares in them. Read below why not even blockchain technology is needed for this and why reliable traditional clearing and settlement mechanisms are used instead.

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Open Banking: Taking a Wait-and-See Approach Can Get Expensive

The initial obligation to open banking has now turned into a dynamic international competition. Sven Siat, Head Connectivity in the business unit Banking Services of SIX, explains why reluctance will not pay off also for the Swiss banks: Those who do not provide up-to-date programming interfaces in the future will not have a lasting business model in the long run.

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Wealth Management in Change: 4 Competencies the Industry Needs to Build for the Future

Like other business areas within the Swiss financial center, wealth management is facing major challenges. What adjustments to the business model are necessary? Find out which competencies will be helpful in connection with data and technology.

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The Future of Finance Is Now

The Future Has Already Begun at SIX

SIX guarantees stability for financial markets and keeps its promises to customers. At the same time, we constantly prove that we deliver innovation even during times of great change. The future of the financial industry is unfolding here and now before our very eyes.

The Future of Assets Is Digital

With the SDX digital exchange, SIX is building a fully integrated, trading, settlement, and custody infrastructure for digital assets in a regulated environment based on distributed ledger technology. This now also includes services in the area of decentralized finance, or DeFi for short. SDX Web3 services are directed at institutional clients and are concentrating initially on the largest applications in DeFi: cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and other asset tokens.

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ESG Data: Already Indispensable in Investing Today

Investors are increasingly inquiring about how their investments or portfolios align with ecological, social, and ethical aims. However, reliable information on ESG (environmental, social, and governance) criteria is vital in the future not just for investment consulting, but is indispensable also for risk management and financial institution compliance. Sustainability criteria and transparency regulations for securities issuers and financial products are constantly becoming ever stricter. SIX supports its customers by providing them with consistent and comparable ESG data, including regulatory data as well as performance indicators and special ESG indices.

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New Business Possibilities with Open Banking

Open banking brings banks and fintechs together, thus enabling the co-creation of new customer-centric solutions. In other words, with the consent of a bank customer, a bank can share data with a fintech or other third-party provider. This, in turn, lays the foundation for the creation of new services with added value. We are still in the early stages of a trend that will forever change the financial industry. bLink from SIX already ensures today that collaboration and the flow of data can proceed securely, efficiently, and in a standardized way.

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The Latest Finance Technology for the Swiss and Spanish Financial Centers

SIX supports national and international startup companies from the world of finance that have ideas and solutions for new services, design more efficient processes, or aim to tap new customer groups. SIX FinTech Ventures is a 50 million Swiss francs corporate venture capital fund that invests in early-stage startups around the world. This enables us to support the Swiss and Spanish financial centers with cutting-edge technologies, innovative solutions, and revolutionary business models. For independent fintech startups that are also capable of growing on their own and which meet a true customer need, SIX is a partner on equal footing.

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Innovation in Data Products and Financial Information

Innovation is deeply rooted at SIX. By combining technology, expertise, and collaboration, we develop data solutions that help clients excel in challenging markets, anticipate future needs, and shape tomorrow’s financial landscape.
In today’s data-driven world, AI plays a transformative role in enhancing data quality, automation, and insights — helping the financial industry operate with greater accuracy, consistency, and reliability. Discover more on how SIX is shaping the future of financial information and data products through innovation and technology.

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